I believe those evaluations were looking for very different things, like if she presented a current danger to herself or others, suicidal ideations, more immediate “crisis” stuff than the existence (or lack thereof) of mental illness(es) but that’s JMOO. I think any potential differences about the evaluations & findings would mostly affect trying to argue the presence of some pre-existing mental illness at the time of these crimes but I also do agree that any previous evaluation(s) with such “good” findings do not help support an argument of having some mental illness for years. It will surely be interesting to see what they say, hopefully someday, in Court about this stuff.
I also wholeheartedly agree with
@Ruminations - I think she very well could be incompetent. That’s not insanity. I know many have said she’s probably faking it but I think that would be difficult, though not impossible, to do for any extended period of time. I think very much that being in custody for so long, isolated from everything and everyone she knew, among other factors (like more serious charges), could very well have affected her in very negative ways mentally and with her competency. I think even some of the strongest of us, if we were in isolated custody for so long, could face some real declines physically, mentally, emotionally. That isn’t to say that would push everyone towards incompetence territory though.
I gotta give some more credit to the trained professionals who’ve evaluated her, and if she did happen to fool them initially I don’t think it would be something she could keep up for this long (or longer). It’s not totally impossible but IMOO I think it is pretty improbable that she’d be able to keep such a facade up.
